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Community action and planning. Contexts, drivers and outcomes

2014

With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise it and use it as a means of reconnecting to citizens and localising democracy. This unique book analyses the contexts, drivers and outcomes of community action and planning in a selection of case studies in the global north: from emergent neighbourhood planning in England to the community-based housing movement in New York, and from active citizenship in the Dutch new towns to associative a…

Spatial planningWestern worldSettore SPS/10 - Sociologia Dell'Ambiente E Del TerritorioCityCommunity action Public participation City Western world Urban policy Spatial planningCommunity action; Public participation; City; Western world; Urban policy; Spatial planningPublic participationCommunity actionUrban policy
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Language students and emerging identities

2012

The aim of our article is to study written narratives as a way of expressing emerging identities as second language (L2) users. We compare narratives written by Finnish students of Swedish during their first semester (24 essays) with data collected after the third year of study (9 essays), thereby trying to figure out how the university context has affected the development of the students as L2 users. L2 learning is regarded as a complex project entailing constant identity formation as a plurilingual subject. We see identity as a process, as something flexible, hybrid and multifaceted. Identity evolves in participation and it always includes a temporal dimension. The language learning proce…

community of practiceoppiminenidentity formationsecond language learningkieletwritten narratives
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